I post #dadhacks and #wifehacks to scale a family that I’ve learned from the school of life. Faithful married 12+ years with a handful of young kids 10 and under. Little stepping stones. Apprentice of Christ. Lutheran.
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Last Notes npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl In response to me explaining what Maundy means, “Mandate”. “Well Jesus was kind of on a man date on Maundy Thursday, bunch of guys sitting around together drinking wine” - well played eldest kid, well played npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl I’m ready for Upril before Downgust npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl I had my Claude bot create a web app for tracking Easter eggs. Take picture and track gps coordinates. It was basically one-shot and I tracked 40 eggs across 5 acres for the kids. Looks like I’ll be doing more of this. That worked out too well! npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl When the church asks you to preach one Lenten Wednesday on one of the petitions in the Lords Prayer, you should say yes and help your pastor out. It’s a wildly busy season for him and an honor to be counted among those who can teach. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl This is the 2020s equivalent joke of the 2000s “give me cancer now god!” npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl 5th kid is almost a year old. It has become increasingly clear that I have been severely limited in my career and money situation by the number of kids I have. I have had a baby in diapers for 10 years. I could have stayed in the Bay Area and played the game. But I moved to the middle of nowhere with no neighbors to control my territory and raise a clan. Before long on this quest that started in earnest10 years ago, Christ found me. And now I see that if I should I have a sixth I would be more wealthy, and in fact already am. Not just in terms of right now which I am due to my daily time with my children, but also in the future 15-25 years from now. If God’s grace continues and allows me to see this mission through. The love of this family compounds unlike anything I have seen of wealth otherwise. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Having “the conversation” with our oldest two daughters tonight. Oldest is mostly pissed off that our last baby wasn’t just a random gift from God. Yes dear there is a human initiative. I’m grateful we didn’t wait another month. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Go to the creek with your family https://blossom.primal.net/e99bc455bc03d9fd1ef3d1959c624edf2bc5a0b7bfa8d62aba955ac0962d5b5b.jpg npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl @nprofile…l523 I should have tagged, and yes exactly npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl My wife was still on free ChatGPT until today, just asking about an old friend in Minnesota and it tried to hedge random unrelated crap about the events in Minneapolis today. They clearly have to pre-prompt wacky stuff to manage the onslaught of internet sleuthing during things like this. Anyway I got her set up on Routstr and topped it off instantly with my LN node via Zeus. Now she can ask anything uncensored and free. It makes perfect sense that the first thing I will regularly pay for in sats is uncensored intelligence. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Midlife means there is a second half far better than the first. Shoveling through bad habits of sin is immensely rewarding. He shovels with us, actually already won the victory, and we are just humbled enough to see and understand now. And do better in the Heavenly economy than ever before. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Pray your longest prayer of the day when putting the littles to sleep. Take as long as you need. They’ll go to sleep in the best of way. Your list will grow and grow. You do maintain a list right? And you will come to cherish this time more than any. Someday it will be gone but the greatest habit will be indelibly seared onto your soul. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl https://blossom.primal.net/bb95337d74183e11205e3661189dae06f72603dcef8efd08f7200665c687ab7e.jpg npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl I took a break to sleep train my 7 month old three times in the last 3 months. He might be our last. I can’t deny my wife that bittersweet joy. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Yeah bc those already high leverage jobs are getting even more leverage. Unbelievable productivity npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Pacifier’s are an anti pattern. Give them to less than one year olds for something to do. Never use them as long term comfort. Pull that shit out of your 2+ year old it is destroying their jaw, teeth, and speech. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl The Avalon Q was worth every sat. Home is heated entirely by firewood and miners now. Even turned a 3 season sunroom into 4, now my office. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Totally depraved npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl This is a modern heresy unfortunately. Yet also the oldest trick in the book. “Did God _really_ say that?” npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl 5 months old, waking 3-4 times a night. Wife exclusively breastfeeds. I dropped the hammer on that little baby last night. He moved into his room, the 3 yo boy moved out of the girls room in with him. And so did I, for a few days anyway. This is my 5th child to sleep train. I can literally do it in my sleep. Wife is showing renewed energy, signs of life. We waited long enough. Yeah he cried for 30 minutes while I progressively backed off my verbal re-assurances, sleeping in the unused top bunk that will be his someday. Yeah the 3 year old slept right through all of it. He startled once to a new room confused, I laid with him back to sleep. They won't even really remember their old sleeping habits in 3 days. The first night is always the roughest but when you hold the line it's over before you know it and you have good sleepers. (as long as they are together) npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl As a Christian, I am called to share my wealth with neighbors in need. She’s running the local 4-H meeting today while I’m at home with the youngest two. Truly the jewel of my crown. (Proverbs 12:4) #dadstr How has your wife brought Christ and you glory today? npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl If aiming to ease, there is wisdom in the advice to start with chickens, rabbits for some seasons, then maybe sheep once you’re ready to try a bigger thing. Habits of housing maintenance, food/water, etc are crucial and a little different for each animal (but also don’t need to be fancy). Not hard or complex, but jobs to be done. Animals do tie you down until you figure out systems and friends that can help free you for a trip. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl 6 acres. Cut my teeth with a family dairy cow and three sheep and eventually cried uncle. We went too hard on the homestead life at first, pared back a ton last year and even more this year ( a summer with an infant ). I think we know exactly how we can responsibly re-expand next season 😅 https://blossom.primal.net/333809ebd6345e66448801986cf3d8c82a9c09c2007afbba95e8486a914afe81.gif npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl I totally get that. It was like that for a couple of days for me but I pushed through, now the novelty is over and all that’s left is camaraderie. It’s probably catalyzed by how we have massively structured our lives around their open time-space though, so they aren’t anxious or rushed in much. (Rural homeschool) They certainly aren’t starved for my attention , so I appear to have broken out past the wake of interruptions. The olders really enjoy and respect the “this is a quiet working space” boundary. The youngers come and go and give me hugs, but I do have noise cancelling headphones for sure. I also lowered my coffee intake to just one cup with food because I was so anxious and 2-3 black. The biggest revelation for me here was that I had no choice but to make this work, given all other constraints I refuse to let go of for this season of life (lots of kids, homeschool, steady job, etc) npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Exactly! All the necessary monkey work was automated, is just even more fun now. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Update on moving back home to work near kids: The second grader can do math sitting next to the 5 month old. Next to me. Holy shit this is the exact answer to all of the dread we had about how to scale our homeschool. It was under my nose the whole time! https://blossom.primal.net/ee5d6ecf1e34cba949c1e511a752201b16745548ae9df4164c01a8268ff94870.png npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Many of the promises in the Bible are not just about the life to come, but are about this life now. Do the work. I tell my children some form of this 👇 on a regularly basis. Some of them are clearly slower to truly get it, as they repeatedly scoff at work too frequently. With patience and long-suffering I will not give up giving them lesson, gently or harshly at various times. #dadstr #dadhacks #nevent1q…je6n npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl I got a tiny rural office building to get away from my homeschoolers several years ago. Coding means holding a ton of fragile context in my head and the little interruptions here and there were truly destructive. However, I've recently started working from home again and I realized the job is completely different now. LLMs hold the fragile context, I just hold pointers to the architecture in my head. It's 100x easier to drop in and out of flow state. So I'm thinking about moving the office back home. The school-age kids get to do their work by daddy while he works. It certainly eases the weight of my wife, the teacher, who is also exclusively nursing a baby (no bottles for us, that's a different thread). Her job will only get harder in the years to come. I kind of can't believe I'd move back home.... my precious little space with the bookshelves and desk and vibe. My little work sanctum, my "territory". Screw it. Give me the messy papers, the school books, the little faces, the break moments to teach basic math and science. I'm running back as fast as I can now that I realize it's possible now. This homeschool is going to scale so well. Is this dying to self and living #ToChristAlone in my journey? #dadstr #dadstrong npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Daaaad! 😫 npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Hard mode, engaged! Nicely done 🤘 npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Found my new favorite hashtag! npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Good luck! It sounds like you have a good process you’re going to follow. My first was terrible as well. My first principle hypothesis is that it sucks to be alone (assuming you are giving them a room). Everything got 100x easier once I put all my kids in one room together, a nursery with boys and girls until they age out. Mega leverage there. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl “My precious” the deagle npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl I've sleep trained all prior kids at 4-5 months old. This 5th baby smiles so much and I'm a completely different man with a lot more freedom... I don't have it in me yet. Might just bring him into bed for a few weeks. (Could totally change my mind in a week) I'll do a note on sleep training if someone asks for it. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl There's a lot of terrible advice in this thread. Follow me instead npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl It doesn’t. But the Lord provides. And it scales far better than you can imagine. That man’s quiver is full of sharp arrows. Psalm 127 npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl He lived in Christ, and his death is gain. Philippians 1:21 npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl je suis Charlie Except I’m not, I’m a fuckin coward laying low compared to him. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Checking my nostr feeds after my first code review session on my new @nprofile…cewr outside in the sun and… I’m gonna go back outside now. I might just be outside the rest of this reset. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl I work in a 100M ARR majestic monolith daily and do not get this feeling. It’s all just subfolders and context management. In fact wonder if microservices _prevent_ LLM from getting big picture in many cases. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl When I use @nprofile…2xcj it really feels like that npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl The free market speaks npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Look with 5 kids 9 and under homeschooled by mom, that means I am the school custodian. This is one of the greatest #wifehacks There’s no other way but to love them and their messes. It’s a relatively short season of life. I’m certainly not going to give them away to other teachers or caregivers… or live in filth. So here’s how I scaled it: 1. Heavy duty grabber arm thing from home improvement store so I don’t have to bend over a thousand times 2. Speed run picking everything up with grabber and chucking it onto couch or table, one pile per room 3. Tell kids to process “sort pile”, this is psychologically far easier for them than picking up and sorting. Even the 3 year old can pull his toys out and put them in basket. 4. Headphones in + podcast/book on. 5. Bissel Zing vacuum the hardwood floors, far quicker than sweeping and better at corners. (Kids still working sort piles) 6. Once a week the Tineco vacuum/mop combo to clean the floors of grime, after a quick dribble of water on any odd spots to let them break up as I mop The routine takes 20 minutes, is done every other day on average. My oldest kids are eager to do the vacuuming now. I haven’t allowed that yet because I know they’ll miss crumbs that I don’t, but soon enough I’ll ease them into it. #dadhacks npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Lol yeah maybe it was just incompetence at the FDA or something like that. Idk but I was infected by the stigma too, until I saw others (see bodybuilders) and proved it to myself otherwise npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl With the elimination of all of my debt (except mortgage), I'm officially switching to Strike + Bill Pay on a 1.5% flat cash back card with local credit union. One step further off the dollar. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Shlonking with whole milk is a great way to spice it up. Way to go quitting coffee! npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Raw eggs do not cause salmonella infections. This is a lie that you bought. Raw eggs are in fact nutritious and easy on the digesting system npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl This is objectively wrong. I have been shlonking for years with only great affects. You bought a lie by some entrenched interest npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl It’s the easiest breakfast ever, crack into cup of whole milk, is crazy nutritious, and leaves you energized and satisfied fully until lunch npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Funny I get gas/issues if I cook em, but raw is actually easier to digest. Easiest breakfast ever npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl I’ve been shlonking for years, your mental model needs updating npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Chug em with whole milk it’s simple and filling and super nutritious npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Put the dish cabinet right next to the dishwasher on the ground level. Now even the littles can help unload dishes. The simplest of #dadhacks https://blossom.primal.net/a992a23f7b80434d5be2bc92b0fa4c9a0572e9332aed29077b5868a783fb2853.png npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Heavier weights, smaller sets, but an extra set. I still can’t believe how enjoyable it becomes then and not just a chore. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl “And did it cure your gay thoughts?” npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl As long as it’s not a buttsicle I mean come on you should have put more time between these topics npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl This a post about being a dad and going all in. #nevent1q…um2n npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Oye get this fookin shite off me toimeloine npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl This is one of the biggest reasons to avoid regular marijuana use IMO npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Grow In all facets of life, in due time. Sometimes in surprising counter-intuitive ways. For example, growing both in tribal power and yet also humility and service. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl I saw dads and clicked, am simple man. But it shows a cloudflare error 🙁 npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl 4 is twice as much as 3. 🫡 npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Dudes with just 2 young kids often have no idea how great it is to have more. They are still searching for “me time” like they used to have. I’m having me time right now. With a cup of coffee in the sunroom holding my 5th baby watching the sunrise. Unbelievably fulfilling npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Capping at 3 kids for more “me time” is lame though npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Country boy can survive! npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl ~6 to failure instead of 8-12 npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Fewer reps and heavier weights was the advice I needed when I was younger. It makes all the difference in the world for a man. Makes it dopaminergic. #dadhacks I was a stick at 18 years old. Computer kid. I still would be if I hadn’t been taught this one key thing. Now I’m just normal/healthy. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Easy there! some of us are family NGU bros npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl False dichotomies everywhere all the sudden! npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl With so many young kids in the house, I must demand total obedience as a daily discipline of #dadhacks. There simply isn’t wiggle room. With that I also give lots of patience, encouragement, and grace, pointing them #ToChristAlone along the way. But the posture I have to take is very much the opposite of “gentle parenting” techniques that coddle children. You simply can’t scale a family that way. And you bet when the children are orderly enough and you are loving enough, your wife will want more of them. 1 Timothy 3:4–5 (ESV) “He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?” It’s good to demand obedience. And good to give grace. Hold the line, fathers. As the Father holds the line on us. #dadhacks npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Thinking about getting a @nprofile…3wa3 because I read a lot in Logos - it’s why I got an iPad mini originally but that eye fatigue is real npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Cheers to that https://blossom.primal.net/284b0d23085cd974be92e6702d6aff358d78ed785a04a40f837f3a4e61f1ebdc.png npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl For 14 years I’ve been paying off student loans on a CS degree I didn’t finish and my wife’s private school arts degree she never used. We both had $120k each. Yes my income grew, but I refinanced to minimize payments and stacked sats instead. This week we rotated out just enough to cover the 60k that was left and eliminate all debts (except 2.25% mortgage) I am a now a free man. Thank God for #Bitcoin npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl ““Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.” -Jesus Telling entire cities to feel shame npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl I love my HP color LaserJet Pro. I buy toner once a year and run my homeschool through it so lots of printing I’ve had it for four years flawless. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl I might anyway tbh. Mom died of colon cancer 10 years ago, so I care about ze colo npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl I’ll do it if you do it first 🤣 npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl We weren’t going to go either. Had been saying that all year (we have 3 month old), then we saw the weather. It’s just a vibe, to go and chill at the Great Minnesota Get Together. I hope you guys have a great day at the fair! npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl The lines for new foods were prohibitively long. I don’t think it’s new but I hadn’t had the honey cream soda float from the ag building bees and honey wing yet. Phenomenal npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Take a day off and go to the fair. The memories last a lifetime and it’s a serious time sovereignty flex to be able to go on a weekday when there are no lines. People look at me like I’m nuts there with so many young kids. “You’re so brave” one grandma said to me. It’s confusing because these are the fun years. It’s pure magic for the littles. #dadhacks https://blossom.primal.net/719ae630a4a249ac8028d56c87f51dc185526b18551c6ccf81febf1db2c05548.png https://blossom.primal.net/826bdf701189ca53ae51b57c99739416e4174eba6ae2456f7ef454aea2d8bd34.png https://blossom.primal.net/fa6ff2ff781fca8afe1d5b0afd66692fe603bedb2eae5e8c14de8a1a8bd6e00c.png https://blossom.primal.net/2c8a57aa634a2eb53b2f1195cb17f9669e7307419ff35481466048cf43904624.png npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Spotted at the #MinnesotaStateFair One lone orange koi in the tank with the river fish by the DNR building. https://blossom.primal.net/15f9376ed53984bef8c18a0f406397507aba572ab5097c92891b069786fcd2c0.png npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Proof of work https://blossom.primal.net/5150e14db0c28bacbd8d02410fe773657824a6a00574238f4cbe56415632b6bb.png npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl When they start throwing major fits, don’t stop moving until they sleep. #dadhacks Always prioritize sleep at the #minnesotastatefair https://blossom.primal.net/d642acd88ff3cee5f39e7b11ebbf422f061d1030cf6ae18d797e387bacc767ff.png npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl It was Apple Photos that had me give up and come back tbh. (Former graphite here) Risk gradient tradeoffs and I am currently comfortable. I’ll gladly look a fool here to ask this: has a compelling photo self storage with no hassle solution come out yet? I see immich is a thing but I’m still burned from the last self-hosted picture thing I tried in 2021, curious if others have thoughts or advocacy. I take a lot of pictures of my family npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Take your kids to water #dadhacks https://blossom.primal.net/530e089460b5af77787b2fdd961318a509f31c8fd2b9f384fd68fd10dcac63fb.png npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Psalm 55:12–14 - “For it is not an enemy who taunts me—then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me - then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend. We used to take sweet counsel together; within God’s house we walked in the throng.” npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Lack of web search is the only thing keeping it from being my main ! npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl The main reason I came back to Christianity after eight years of atheism is because of two things: Bitcoin and my children. For years I searched for a framework to raise my kids in. I tried stoicism, new ageism, agnosticism, and atheism. All of it left me dissatisfied. All of it felt like handing my children a bankrupt inheritance. Bitcoin changed me. It lowered my time preference—suddenly I was thinking about the future, my legacy, and my children. That forced me to ask deeper questions. And when I searched for answers, I kept running into Christ. My testimony feels simple: I looked everywhere else, but only Christianity gave me a model of reality that actually worked. Creation, sin, death, resurrection—Christianity explains not only success and failure, but the countless side effects and nuances of this broken world. And then you look at the Bible itself—how it came to be over centuries, organically, with the same markers that life itself has. You’ve probably seen the chart of inter-testament references. My old atheist mind said, “That’s circular reasoning.” Yet it’s the same kind of “circular reasoning” that underpins Bitcoin’s very value. Both are rooted in truth, in something beyond the self. Bitcoin pointed me to the long game. Christ showed me the eternal one. https://blossom.primal.net/d38d309680b3259497250512b13766a060664a47e0dc6224e8550d0608813642.mp4 npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Both my boss and my neighbor who is a financial advisor acted surprised when I told them I was a bitcoiner and not a shitcoiner. Surprised because it had not crossed their mind to differentiate the two. In 2025 npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Billionaire cringe posting his tech that makes anime bikini babe pictures dance was not on my bingo card for 2025, and yet it totally tracks. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Nah, there’s always another generation you want to see. To live to see 4 is truly a gift from God. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Peer validation is one hell of a drug! npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Single/first kid demands so much, they have no siblings to play with. It gets a lot easier with more. npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Apple Photos is why I left graphene and came back to iOS, more or less. The whole import work, and no convincing open source alternative… I just don’t have time and don’t see a serious risk to family photos. Self-hosting is time consuming, or was. Immich didn’t exist at the time though. What’s your least favorite part of Immich so far? Are you running on a dedicated home server? npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl They are selling trinkets they’ve made with a friend for 25 cents. They’ve made two sales already 🤣 God bless small town life https://blossom.primal.net/c0c86d1437d0f308ebcf58ebf9f070f181bea2ef78492ac6dcd4d51c5229eb8b.png npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl I bought a small town office building to get away from the homeschool noise. Then I let the church quilting club into the larger half. Now the wife and kids are here once a week 🙃 Wouldn’t have it any other way though npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Wife is quilting in dining room npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Ah there it is, now I’m getting a “haircut”. Eldest is cleaning the school room. Next is doing the dishes from dinner. I’m holding the baby and getting a hair message. All praise #ToChristAlone for real npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl Yeah you bet my 5 year old daughter is “cutting” my 3 year old son’s hair right now, days later. Unspeakably adorable #nevent1q…4hq4 npub1s8qz3s5vwr0tlwcmzl5z3j55z0zh2n9lj5fz9l6s43l0mhkngdjs204czf dadhodl What are using to edit?